[2] In the future, pregnancy is outlawed, and citizens are required to engage in loveless sex and narcotics are used to ensure happiness in the population.

While most people are happy to retain this established order, including Thomas Grambell, a supervisor of human "hatcheries," resistance is growing, as evidenced by quirky malcontent Bernard Marx and other rebels.

Bernard and his girlfriend Lenina Disney go to a primitive reservation which holds to 20th century values, and while there meet a native named John (also called the Savage).

John's parents are from the more technologically advanced part of the world, and he has educated himself using often banned works such as Shakespeare.

[5] Brave New World was directed by Burt Brinckerhoff[5] for Universal Television and first shown on NBC on 7 March 1980.